Madhya Pradesh is the first State of the country, where the Community based Nutrition Management (C-SAM) has been launched in the form of a campaign for the severe malnourished children. The campaign will be implemented in two phases. Under the first phase, the work in 97,135 aaganwadis of the state for identifying serious malnourished children is underway till February 20.
While talking to media persons here on Friday, Minister for Woman and Child Development Imarti
Devi said that the centre based 5-day health checkup camps will be organised and medicines will be given under the second phase. Under this phase, besides monitoring of nutrition till 12 weeks, observation, consultation and village health, sanitation as well as monthly health checkup on nutrition days and checking of nutrition will be held.
Imart Devi informed that 10 to 15 percent children with acute malnutrition need treatment because of medical complications. The better nutrition management at community level will be done of those 85 to 90 percent children with acute malnutrition, which do not have medical complications. She further informed that the management is being monitored and supervised by the CMAS app. She said that the physical measurement of and nutrition level of about 80 lakh children could be determined through this campaign. Along with this, the nutrition management of about 80 to 85 percent children will also be done at community level.
The Minister informed that nutrition awareness stalls will be put up in haat-bazaars to generate consciousness in tribal areas. She mentioned that a target has been set to put up 963 stalls per week and 50,076 nutrition awareness stalls in a year. Apart from this, dialogues will also be established with the mass communities and nomad communities. She further informed that nutrition baskets will be distributed to the children through nutrition awareness stalls in weekly haat bazaars of tribal areas.
Imarti Devi informed that the Community Nutrition Kitchen programme will be started to create awareness about preparing delicious and nutritious food from locally available and used cereals, fruits and vegetables.
He informed that a community nutrition kitchen competition of locally available and used cereals, fruits and vegetables will be organised from March 8 to 31.
Imarti Devi informed that 800 new child education centres will be started on February 28, 2020. She informed that in the first phase, 313 anganwadi centres were developed as child education centres with the objective of providing quality pre-school education to children between 3 to 6 years of age.